The way that enterprise products are being bought and sold is changing rapidly. Customers are increasingly demanding instant access to all information about your product, including pricing and a Freemium or free trial version of your application. We call this trend the consumerization of B2B sales. Totango recently conducted a research studying the Freemium, free […]

The Alternative Board® (TAB) – in connection with Corona Insights, a leading market research firm based in Denver – annually polls its members as well as a mirror group of non-member business owners regarding their performance relative to projections and their coming year business forecasts. Source

Whether a small business is based indoors or outdoors, chances are it is affected by severe weather sometime. Snow storms, heavy rainfall, high winds, and the like stall outdoor labor (like construction) and keep people off the streets — both employees and customers — from coast to coast. Source

Small business owners are an incredibly diverse group of people who know a lot about their chosen fields. Slightly less than half of all small businesses have more than one owner, and sixty percent of small business owners have worked in their industry for more than 20 years. Source

While small businesses may not think about their Internet connection until the monthly bill arrives or it slows down their productivity (or worse, stops it altogether), they often depend on it. And with President Obama springing his National Broadband Plan into action, high-speed Internet will become even more pervasive throughout every pocket of the country. […]

This infographic provides information for social media and blogging as a tool for small business. It provides statistical data for how many businesses in the U.S use social media and marketing to promote their business, how the rate is going to grow and what social media sites business are predominantly using. Source

We don’t talk about how to help our merchants get bigger and better on this blog much but we definitely should. Without the hard working, dedicated folks who have set out to open up shop and serve their communities we wouldn’t be here. Source

The BOLT Women Small Business Owners – America’s New Job Creators Infographic visually explains how female business owners have positively impacted job creation in the U.S.. More and more American women are taking their careers into their own hands and opening small businesses. Small businesses account for more than 99 percent of employers in the […]

The Intuit Small Business Employment Index for September is showing signs of relief for small business employment. In spite of all the uproar over the threatened European financial meltdown, this good news is very welcome. Source